so i just put in my app for starting college

and i think i'm gonna throw up.

yeah.

stress much?

Starting college is no reason to stress. School was a joy.

Good luck with that, you're much braver than I am.

I've gone back as an adult. Took some classes at the school during the summer, damn did I feel old!!! Have taken some online classes as well. It's scary, but I found it to be a good scary!

thats how i feel! i feel like even though i let a buttload of time pass.. i can't let this go. i gotta do this or i'm never gonna get what i need to get done.

:p

Best of luck

Congratulations! Do not stress. I went back to college after an 18 year hiatis from school and loved it so much I continued on to get my Masters. I know you will do well! My best to you!

thanks schnooky bottom

Speaking as one who is a college graduate of a four-year university (graduating in four years no less... not the eight-or-ten years that has become standard nowadays), the thing to do is to keep your nose to the grindstone.

You simply have to attend to the task at hand and not stop until you've graduated. Getting sidetracked and stressing about stuff when you haven't officially even started college will just give you ulcers.

hi moofy...

i like your new pirate hat. it makes you look.. manly. or .. feral kitty-like. ;p

yeah i know. i'm slowly but surely doin this and i'm scared outta my mind i'll burn out like i did when i first tried but i can't this time because damnit this is it. fix the leak or drown in it. ya know?

plus i know i got people out there to hold me to it. to keep me straight on the path and not let me screw up.

oh.. and let me know when you wanna hold my nose to that grindstone. you freak

I wish I had the time and the money to go back to school. My college years were some of the best in my life. And yes I did graduate. Good luck to ya.

WTF.

Well... you WILL get your nose sharpened when you keep it to the grindstone, you know?

If there was anything I learned about college, it's that it can be quite the stressful experience, especially when you're going in these rather interesting economic times. You'll be witness to things that will only discourage you from even wanting to continue with college, but you can't let that dissuade you from going on with that all-important college degree.

Like I said- you just gotta go full-bore into it, and don't stop until someone suddenly hands you a graduation cap and gown. Then you can PROBABLY stop.

And be sure to pick a major that is "marketable", too- something you can use that will get you in the door and making money, not something that will only peg you as a "hippie" or "dope-fiend".

wish i could afford to go back to school, i've applied for cal grants pell grand fafsa and everything in between, i live below the poverty line.